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32 JUDGES DECIDE THE BEST OF THE BEST IN DESIGN
Six more judges were added to the 26th Edition judging at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications in February. This brought the total number of experts needed to judge the annual competition to 32.
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We wish to thank all the judges who volunteered their time and made the 26th Edition a success. They were:
WORLD'S BEST JUDGES:
John M. Humenik is editor of the Quad-City Times, Davenport, Iowa. He also is publisher of On The River and editor of the Quad-City Business Journal. He is a former presentation/graphics editor at The Cincinnati Enquirer and assistant managing editor at the The Times of Northwest Indiana, Munster. He received the Suburban Newspapers of America’s 2004 “Editor of the Year” award.
Buck Ryan, executive director of the University of Kentucky’s First Amendment Center, is a newspaper consultant and a co-author of The Editor’s Toolbox, which explains his Maestro Concept for story planning and newsroom organization adopted by newspapers here and abroad. He received the university’s highest award for teaching in 2003.
Sharon Roberts, assistant managing editor for presentation at the Austin American-Statesman (Texas), has held newsroom positions that include: artist, Palm Beach Post, art director, Dallas Morning News and assistant managing editor for graphics, photography and design, The Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, Ca.). She recently led the launch of ¡ahora sí!, the Statesman’s Spanish-language weekly.
Eduardo Danilo Ruiz has worked in the media for more than 20 years as an art director, typographer, information architect and technology strategist. Eduardo has received many awards for his design of newspapers, magazines and interactive media, and is the author of the acclaimed design of the dailies Reforma and Mural in Mexico, which have been celebrated as one of the “25 Moments in History of Newspaper Design” by the SND. He has led more than 100 redesign projects in Latin America, Europe and Asia.
Bonnie Scranton has been at Newsweek Magazine for 11 years as the graphics director and now as a senior art director. She has worked for Richard Saul Wurman’s The Understanding Business and has taught graphic design at Yale University. She has worked for Edward Tufte on his books “Visual Explanations” and “Beautiful Evidence.”
GENERAL JUDGES:
Tonia Cowan, graphics director at the Toronto Star, has recently returned to her Canadian hometown after 10 years in Manhattan. In 1994 she moved to New York City to work for the Associated Press in a number of capacities, including deputy art director before moving to Newsweek to do 3D graphics. She has served as a judge for the Malofiej awards in Pamplona, Spain. She has won many awards for her graphics and design work.
Richard Curtis, a USA Today founder, is managing editor for graphics and photography. He was also a founder of SND and its Design journal. His work has been noted in “Information Architects” and “1,000 Most Creative People in the USA.” He has won many design awards from several organizations including SND. He also is the winner of the Anton Majeri Award for Innovation and Leadership in Graphics Journalism and twice won the American Journalism Review’s best-designed newspaper award.
Linda Eckstein has been Fortune Magazine’s information graphics editor since 1995. She joined the business biweekly as a designer in 1984, after designing news graphics at United Press International.
Julie Elman is a designer at The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va. She has also worked as a picture editor and photojournalist at other newspapers. She has taught photojournalism at the University of Missouri and design at Virginia Wesleyan College. Elman has won numerous SND awards.
Tim Frank, who started Newspagedesigner.com, worked to put the Sun Journal, Lewiston, Maine, onto the news-design map, collecting more than 60 awards in the process. In 2003, Frank joined The Arizona Republic to coach the news designers staff and help drive a new direction for the paper.
Janet Froelich is creative director of The New York Times Magazine and of T: The New York Times Style Magazine. Under her direction, The New York Times Magazine has won more than 60 Gold and Silver awards from SND, The Art Directors Club and the Society of Publication Designers.
Bill Gaspard is news design director at the Los Angeles Times. Before moving to the Times he was senior editor for readership at The San Diego Union-Tribune where he lead an effort to help the newsroom and other departments find innovative ways to address readership and circulation issues. Gaspard is also SND's president for 2005.
Jeff Goertzen is a senior graphics reporter for the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times. He is a graphics consultant who has worked with more than 60 newspapers worldwide, training artists and building art departments. He has worked at The Orange County Register; The Detroit News; The Dallas Morning News; El Mundo, Madrid; El Periodico, Barcelona.
Joseph Kieta is editor of the Merced Sun-Star, a McClatchy-owned daily in California. Prior to the Sun-Star, Kieta worked on redesign projects at The Tribune in San Luis Obispo, Calif., and the Times Leader in Wlikes-Barre, Pa. He has won numerous awards for his newspaper work.
David Kordalski has been assistant managing editor for visuals at The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio, for five years, overseeing photography, graphics, news and feature design. He guided the paper’s 2001 redesign. In his 20-plus years as a visual journalist, Kordalski has worked at large-, midsize- and small-circulation dailies, as well as weeklies.
Teresa Kriegsman is design editor of The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C., named a World’s Best-Designed Newspaper™ in 1998. During her 16 years there, she has designed news and sports sections and won several awards from SND and Associated Press Sports Editors.
Heidi de Laubenfels is assistant managing editor for visuals & technology at The Seattle Times, which she joined in early 1998 to manage a new publishing system and a two-year-long redesign that culminated in June 2004. Laubenfels has worked in numerous capacities in newsrooms at The Denver Post (Colo.), the Phoenix Gazette (Ariz.) and The Bellingham Herald (Wash.).
Marcy Mangels has been an assistant managing editor for three years at The Journal News, which serves the northern suburbs of New York City. Mangels designed the front page of the Connecticut Post for several years, winning several regional awards, and then she redesigned the Post in 1999 for a web conversion.
Matt Mansfield is deputy managing editor of the San Jose Mercury News (Calif). Mansfield directs the design, graphics and photography departments, as well as state, national and international reporting for the Silicon Valley newspaper. The Mercury News has been judged a World’s Best-Designed Newspaper™.
Alberto Nava is art director of Récord, the Méxican sports newspaper named World’s Best-Designed Newspaper™ the past two years. He leads a 40-designer team there, and he has 12 years of journalism-design experience, having worked at Reforma, México City, and at the editorial company Notmusa.
Matt Petty is an art director at the San Francisco Chronicle (Calif). He has worked in visual journalism for eight years, including news, features and information graphics. He has also worked at the San Jose Mercury News and The San Francisco Examiner. His work has appeared in the SND and Print annuals.
Evangelia Philippidis is an editorial features illustrator for The Columbus Dispatch (Ohio), where she has spent 18 years presenting visual stories of humanity and hubris, technology and spirituality, passion and pathos. Her award-winning images reflect both her Greek heritage and modern influences.
Brian Plonka is a staff photographer for The Spokesman-Review (Wash.). During his 22-year career, Plonka has been named photographer of the year 10 times in local, regional and national contests. He was the 59th POY newspaper photographer of the year, and he has won several SND Gold awards.
David Puckett, senior artist at The Charlotte Observer (N.C.), has worked at newspapers for nearly 25 years. Publications include The Orange County Register (Calif.), and the Los Angeles Times (Calif.). Puckett has received dozens of awards from several organizations. SND awards include seven Silvers, a handful of Bronze and a Judges’ Special Recognition for his 1991 graphics on the Persian Gulf War.
Gladys Rios is a design consultant and former design director at The Times of Northwest Indiana, Munster. She has overseen news, features and sports design during her career, and her experience includes redesign and creation of new sections and publications. She is also a former features design director at the Austin American-Statesman (Texas), and she’s also worked at the Detroit News (Mich.) and the Chicago Tribune (Ill.).
Alejandro Ros’ clients include publications and entities such as Página/12, Radar, Las/12, the Goethe-Institut Buenos Aires, MTV, rock bands and recording artists. He has won 22 SND awards as well as Garden Prizes for compact-disc covers. He was the 2002 Platinum Konex Prize winner for best Argentinean designer of the decade.
Rob Schneider is the design editor for sports for The Dallas Morning News (Texas). After graduating from Truman State University (Mo.), Schneider has been a reporter, photographer, copy editor, section editor and designer for various-size newspapers in Missouri, Nebraska and Texas. SND, APSE and Malofiej have honored his work.
Phaedra Singelis, a multimedia producer, is deputy managing editor for multimedia at washingtonpost.com, where she is responsible for content development. She is liaison between the online product and the newspaper's award-winning photojournalism department. Prior to working on the Web site, Singelis worked as a picture editor at the Baltimore Sun (Md.) and as staff photographer at The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, Ohio, and The Cincinnati (Ohio) Enquirer.
Stacy Sweat has been associate managing editor for design & graphics at the Chicago Tribune (Ill.) since 1992. In the 1980s she was art director for the Sunday magazines of the Orlando Sentinel (Fla.) and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Ga.). She led the redesign of both the St. Paul Pioneer Press (Minn.) in 1990 and the Chicago Tribune in 2001.
Juan Velasco is an infographics reporter, artist and consultant. He worked for El Mundo (Spain) from 1991 to 1996 and later as a graphics art director at The New York Times. In 2002, Velasco established the infographics company 5W Infographic in New York and Madrid.
Chin Wang art directs and designs the Life at Home and Sunday Arts covers for The Boston Globe (Mass.). She also works on news pages and special sections. Before coming to The Globe in 2001, Wang worked at The Charlotte Observer (N.C.) and The Orlando Sentinel (Fla.).
Sherman Williams, assistant managing editor for photography at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Wis.), is a founding and current board member of the Associated Press Photo Managers, serving as president in 2004. Williams has been a guest faculty member at the American Press Institute and The Maynard Institute teaching sessions on covering diverse communities, picture editing and ethics.
